Both direct and countercyclical payments from the federal government are based on the number of acres of a commodity -- mostly wheat, corn, cotton, rice or soybeans -- a farmer planted on average in the past years. And as his neighbors grow horizontally, by adding acres, Geiger's farm slowly grows, too, but mostly vertically, through an economic concept known as "vertical integration" in which different steps in the creation of a product are owned by the same person. Farming has been in...

Now, the coconut grower hopes to plant as many as 12 acres of the stuff on his land near Bangalore. Nagendrappa didn't care much at all about jatropha, an ugly wild green shrub that thrives in India. Venkateswarao is also raising the plants -- on a dried-up stretch of dirt east of Hyderabad. Singh proclaims, as he points to 4-foot-tall jatropha. Singh, a horticulturist for India's Ministry of Railways, in a quiet garden by an old airport in New Delhi.

Ito ay base na rin sa pag-aaral kung saan lumalabas na tumataas ang pagtanggap ng mga mamimili sa tinaguriang Pinoy GM rice o genetically modified (GM) rice na inaasahang ikakalat na ng tuluyan sa 2011. MAARING bumaba ang presyo ng bigas sa bansa bunga ng unti-unting pagtanggap ng mga magsasaka at mamimili sa paggamit ng ibat ibang uri ng palay sa kanilang sakahan. Inaasahan ng mga eksperto na sa 2011, ang unang GM rice sa bansa ay makakapasa sa regulatory requirements para sa tuluyang...

A new study published in an alternative agriculture journal has gained widespread attention by claiming that organic farming not only could adequately feed the world, it might even yield more food and require less farmland. Another large dataset used by the Michigan researchers is so questionable that a paper critical of it published in the journal Field Crop Research was titled "Fantastic yields in the system of rice intensification: fact or fallacy?" The Michigan researchers dismiss this...

Advocates, including agribusiness lobbying groups, argue that the existence of commodity payments for crops such as corn and wheat have stemmed population outflows by slowing farm consolidation and pumping crucial dollars into Main Street businesses. Reynolds said it's important for small communities to have entrepreneurs willing to take risks. Yet when Jon Bailey looks at the emerging version of the 2007 farm bill now before Congress, he sees an imbalance that actually perpetuates rural...

MANILA (Dow Jones)--Philippine feedmillers, livestock and poultry raisers want to import 80,000 metric tons of tax-free corn to fill in an expected shortfall in local output, a senior agriculture department official said Tuesday. HANOI (Dow Jones)--Vietnamese rice export prices were mostly higher in the week to Tuesday, as global export demand remains strong amid thin domestic rice supply, traders said. wheat futures trimmed losses Monday and ended mixed amid spillover support from gains...